Project to make Biofuels from Kelp Funded
UK - A team of Scottish, Irish, and Northern Irish marine scientists led by the Scottish Association for Marine Sciences has been awarded a €5 million ($7.4 million) grant from the...

Biomass Power Station Coming to Bristol Port
UK - E.ON, one of the country's leading green generators, has today (TUES) announced plans to invest around £300m in a biomass power station at the Port of Bristol.

5,000 Makes the Largest EU Biofuels Event of 2008
UK - This year's Biofuels Expo & Conference promises to bring a busy schedule with new and exciting prospects to the city of Nottingham. The event, held on the 15th and 16th of October,...

Diageo's Venture - a Global First
SCOTLAND, UK - Plans for a pioneering bioenergy facility at Scotland’s largest distillery, Cameronbridge in Fife, were announced today (Thursday, August 7th 2008) by Diageo.

Waste: a Cheaper Car Fuel
UK - Imagine if cars ran on household waste, if gas tanks were filled with ethanol made from wood chips. Well, the technology to make it happen is already a reality and companies...

AFBI: Scanning Global, Thinking Local
UK - The Global Research Unit based at AFBI Hillsborough, has produced another set of valuable and timely reports for the Agri-Food industry in Northern Ireland.

Energy from Waste Report Findings Welcomed
SCOTLAND - SEPA (the Scottish Environment Protection Agency) has released two reports which assess waste treatment technologies and their benefits to sustainable waste management.

Another Algae Patent Filed by OriginOil
UK - A patent application which covers the “Method and Fluid Process Flow System for the Cultivation of Algae, Integrated within a Transportable Modular Photo Bioreactor,” has been...

Energy Crops Take a Roasting
UK - A process used to roast coffee beans could give Britain's biomass a power boost, increasing the energy content of some of the UK’s leading energy crops by up to 20 per cent.

New Holland Farmers Given Their Choice of Biodiesel
UK - As ‘Biofuels Day’ approaches on 15th April, a date when, by law, all fuel companies in the UK will have to replace 2.5 per cent of their annual fossil fuel sales with biofuels,...

Case Study - Fuels of the Future
UK - Would you invest your hard-earned cash in a man who claims to have turned the contents of a compost heap into the fuel of the future? Oxford Capital Partners and Carbon Trust Investments...

Biotechnology Can Tap Potential Hidden By Energy Crisis
UK - Fibre is the future and fungus holds the key. That's the opinion of Dr Pearse Lyons, President of Biotechnology business, Alltech.